Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

THE LAW OF EXPECTATIONS
The Law of Expectations says that 
whatever you expect, with confidence,
becomes your own self-fulfilling prophecy.
You are continually telling your
own fortune when you talk about how you think things are going to
turn out in a particular area. Your expectations then determine your
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attitude, and your attitude causes people to behave toward you in a
way that reflects what you are thinking inside.
If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful.
If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popu-
lar. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, admired and re-
spected by the people around you, that is what will happen.
You can tell your true expectations by listening to the words you
use to describe an upcoming event. Always think and talk positively
about the future. Start every morning by saying;
“I believe something
wonderful is going to happen to me today.”
Then, throughout the day,
expect the best. Be open and alert to the possibility that each thing
that happens, positive or negative, contains something good. You
will be amazed at the effect this approach to life has on your atti-
tude, and on the way you are treated by the people around you.
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